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The Failure Of The Centralized State

James Wunsch, Dele Olowu, and John W Harbeson

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This book is an outcome of the workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, held in Indiana, during the 1985/86. It seeks to explains why the centralized African state has failed and discusses the breakdown of social processes indirectly caused by the policies of the centralized state.

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